Re-ranking the search results for users with time-periodic intents
Gina Horscroft, Jivashi Nagar, Hussein Suleman · 2018
This paper investigates the time of search as a feature to improve the personalization of information retrieval systems. In general, users issue small and ambiguous queries, which can refer to different topics of interest. Although personalized information retrieval systems take care of user's topics of interest, but they do not consider if the topics are time periodic. The same ranked list cannot satisfy user search intents every time. This paper proposes a solution to rerank the search results for time sensitive ambiguous queries. An algorithm "HighTime" is presented here to disambiguate the time sensitive ambiguous queries and re-rank the default Google results by using a time sensitive user profile. The algorithm is evaluated by using two comparative measures, MAP and NDCG.